@TheSnowDreamer Very poor for the Yorkshire coast too, we had winds from the North sea previous to this with that high pressure back in April, so it's really dragged on.
Dramaric scenes at Church Hill in Scalby as a large tree in the churchyard has come crashing down into the road. Blocked to traffic, but tree surgeons are cutting it up in a major highways operation.
@urbanponds101 I often find this perplexing. It's like when I pick up other peoples litter it gets noticed more than people drop it. Make it make sense 😂
Wondering where the sunshine has gone?
Spare a thought for northeast Scotland; Aberdeen Dyce hasn't recorded any sunshine since 21 January! This is provisionally the longest sunless period here since records began in 1957 ☁️
We’ll be releasing our full Jan 2026 statistics on Mon 2 Feb. But early provisional Met Office UK statistics show Jan has seen:
👉Above average rainfall – wettest in Northern Ireland, with southern England also very wet compared to average
👉Below average temperatures
👉Just below average sunshine
There's much regional variation - we’ll explain all on Mon.
There is a LOT of ensemble spread now.
The closer the lines are the more confidence we can have in the forecast. The spread is largely down to an increasing number of ensembles finding cold or very cold solutions later in the month.
Momentum continues to grow.
@SnowbieWx Thought I'd come back to this after looking earlier. IF an Easterly occurs at some point soon the sea surface temperatures are still heading down with more 6°C showing. As low as 4°C in the Thames estuary and North Norfolk coast. It wouldn't take much to get it even lower..